I linked to the timestamp, it's a long ass video. The front part of the video is great, total normal TC content. Post video though, he gets into his personal politics somewhat, and here I'm thinking "oh, secret Marxist reveal?", but then he gets into partisan politics and it's a full-blown crash out about defiling the constitution and how Dems are always trying to make things better, but republicans show up to undo it all. He reads from the declaration of independence, waxes on about the constitution, the whole nine-yards.

It's really great. Lots of respect. He puts it all out there. If he's interested, I think Cowbee has a reading list he might be interested in.

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[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think what MMM has going for him is that he's young, passionate, and angry, that he's a recent graduate, and that his degree was, if not in the humanities, at least humanities-adjacent (modern archaeology is far more about the everyday people of the past than it used to be). All those things I think make people more open to radicalization. I also think that as a student of history he is perhaps more aware that nothing lasts forever, he's aware of just how many seemingly invincible empires have risen and then fell.

TC is a little bit older and, despite his sympathies with workers and what seems to be a genuinely good nature (he strikes me as an honestly good and decent human being), also a bit of a STEMlord. He is, I think, very stuck on "end of history"-type thinking. I wish I had more hope for the guy, and if class consciousness really starts to spread it could well spread to him, but I can't imagine him ever being ahead of the curve on this.

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly you're probably right. I hope at least that thing he did where he layed everything out that's wrong with the system just to conclude that you have to buy into the system does something for someone at least.